Grade Four

Overall expectations

Students will explore ideas and assess visual and other information, including images and aretfacts from different historical, social and cultural context.

They will be expected to collate information from various sources and use gathered research to develop their own ideas.

Students will continue to increase their levels of technical ability using a range of different media and methods both in 2-D images and 3-D artefacts.

They will continue to choose appropriate materials for a task, building on skills previously learnt, and care for them accordingly.

Students will continue to be exposed to a variety of different art styles and discuss their responses showing reasoning.

They will show increased independence in the way they develop ideas and use their sketchbooks to record their design process.

Students will be encouraged to adapt and refine their work.

They will work on individual and group projects and begin to be able to adapt and improve their work appropriately.

Areas of Study

Programmes of Inquiry will be supported by the following projects:

-         Pop Art

-         Building boats

-         Space fashion design

We will also be doing the following Stand Alone Projects:

-         Surrealist Artist Study

-         Shoe design

-         Observational drawing